SynthesisNature communications2023
Global meta-analysis shows reduced quality of food crops under inadequate animal pollination.
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- Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Pooled it
- Species-specific brain transcriptomic responses to clothianidin and sulfoxaflor in pollinators.iScience · 2026Article
- Economic Value, Relative Vulnerability and Honeybee Colony Supply-Demand Imbalance in Chinese Agriculture, 2010-2024.Insects · 2026Article
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- First report of the comparative effectiveness of insect visitors for cranberry pollination and yield in Chile.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Grasslands Established on Arable Land.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Augmenting plant-pollinator interactions to promote biodiversity and global food security.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer for crops.NPJ sustainable agriculture · 2026Article
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- Empirical evidence supports neither land sparing nor land sharing as the main strategy to manage agriculture-biodiversity tradeoffs.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Transgression of planetary boundaries and the effects on child health through an infectious diseases lens.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Global scale high-resolution habitat suitability modeling of avifauna providing pollination service (sunbirds, Nectariniidae).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Assessing the economic and nutritional value of pollination services in Nepal.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Animal pollination contributes to more than half of citrus production.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Insufficient pollinator visitation often limits yield in crop systems worldwide.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Impacts of Climate Change and Mitigation Strategies for Some Abiotic and Biotic Constraints Influencing Fruit Growth and Quality.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Vertical Stratification of Solitary Bees and Wasps in an Urban Forest from the Brazilian Amazon.Neotropical entomology · 2024Article
- Bumblebee responses to variation in pollinator-attracting traits ofEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Neither sulfoxaflor, Crithidia bombi, nor their combination impact bumble bee colony development or field bean pollination.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Animal pollination supports the production of a wide range of food crops fundamental to maintaining diverse and nutritionally balanced diets. Here, we present a global meta-analysis quantifying the contribution of pollination to multiple facets of crop quality, including both organoleptic and nutritional traits. In fruits and vegetables, pollinators strongly improve several commercially important attributes related to appearance and shelf life, whereas they have smaller effects on nutritional value. Pollination does not increase quality in stimulant crops, nuts, and spices. We report weak signals of a pollination deficit for organoleptic traits, which might indicate a potential service decline across agricultural landscapes. However, the deficit is small and non-significant at the α = 0.05 level, suggesting that pollen deposition from wild and/or managed pollinators is sufficient to maximise quality in most cases. As producing commercially suboptimal fruits can have multiple negative economic and environmental consequences, safeguarding pollination services is important to maintain food security.
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